{"id":89259,"date":"2013-04-26T04:57:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T10:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=89259"},"modified":"2013-04-26T04:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T10:59:00","slug":"lard-after-decades-of-trying-its-moment-is-finally-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=89259","title":{"rendered":"Lard: After Decades of Trying, Its Moment Is Finally Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/food\/2009\/06\/lard.single.html\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a> has the dirty.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wait long enough and everything bad for you is good again. Sugar? Naturally better than high-fructose corn syrup. Chocolate? A bar a day keeps the doctor away. Caffeine? Bring it on.<\/p>\n<p>Lard, however, has always been a ridiculously hard sell. Over at least the last 15 years, it&#8217;s repeatedly been given a clean bill of health, and good cooks regularly point out how superior this totally natural fat is for frying and pastries. But that hasn&#8217;t been enough to keep Americans from recoiling\u2014lard&#8217;s negative connotations of flowing flesh and vats of grease and epithets like lardass and tub of lard have been absurd hurdles. But no longer. I&#8217;m convinced that the redemption of lard is finally at hand because we live in a world where trendiness is next to godliness. And lard hits all the right notes, especially if you euphemize it as rendered pork fat\u2014bacon butter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8216;Bacon butter&#8217;. I like that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(Peasant food has cachet only if you are not forced to live on it.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate has the dirty. Wait long enough and everything bad for you is good again. Sugar? Naturally better than high-fructose corn syrup. Chocolate? A bar a day keeps the doctor away. Caffeine? Bring it on. Lard, however, has always been a ridiculously hard sell. Over at least the last 15 years, it&#8217;s repeatedly been given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89261,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89259\/revisions\/89261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}